Thanks for listening to the 1st season of "The Wonder of", an original podcast series from Wondr Medical.

To mark the end of Black History Month, we wanted to talk about one of the unsung heroes of modern medicine...

An African-American laboratory technician and instructor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, who was instrumental in the development of the ‘Blalock-Taussig’ shunt, a procedure used to improve the survival of children with cyanotic congenital heart defects

This is "The Wonder of Vivien Thomas"

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This Podcast was inspired by Thomas Morris' book "The Matter of the Heart" - Available at all major retailers.

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Thanks for listening to "The Wonder of the Stent", an original podcast series from Wondr Medical.

In the final episode of this season, we'll be hearing how a children’s toy called the 'Chinese Finger Trap' inspired cardiologist Ulrich Sigwart to alter the design of the Stent.

And now, thirty-five years after the first experimental implantation, the stent has become a medical phenomenon.

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This Podcast was inspired by Thomas Morris' book "The Matter of the Heart" - Available at all major retailers.

If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure to subscribe so we can bring you more seasons of "The Wonder of" soon!

Already craving another Podcast from Wondr Studios? Listen to our other new series "Abstract Heart" with Professor Chris Gale.

Welcome back to "The Wonder of the Stent", an original podcast series from Wondr Medical.

In the 2nd episode of this season, we're continuing on the journey that Charles Dotters had set us on. At the time, a young physician called Andreas Grüntzig would attend a talk about "Dottering" at a clinical conference in Frankfurt. What he heard would blow him away, and lead him to go-on and shape the future of... the Stent.

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This Podcast was inspired by Thomas Morris' book "The Matter of the Heart" - Available at all major retailers.

If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure to subscribe so we can bring you more seasons of "The Wonder of" soon!

Already craving another Podcast from Wondr Studios? Listen to our other new series "Abstract Heart" with Professor Chris Gale.

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